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Fred Onyango

Oklahoma man allegedly took a 1-year-old from a stranger’s shopping cart then told police, ‘Yeah, I did that’

Marshall Dixon, 50, was arrested and charged with one count of kidnapping after allegedly snatching a 1-year-old child directly out of a mother’s shopping cart inside a Walmart Supercenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

According to Us Weekly, the harrowing encounter happened just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the retail giant’s Memorial Drive location in Tulsa’s Burning Tree neighborhood. What started as a seemingly casual conversation between a stranger and a mother quickly turned into a parent’s worst nightmare, sparking conversation online about public safety and parental vigilance.

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